How to find the first appearance of an image on the web?

Question

Image processing

Hello.
Many services allow you to give not text, but an image as a request to the search engine (google, TinEye, etc). But the question arose, is there any way to find out when the picture first appeared on the network?
Such an opportunity would greatly help to stop the panic in social networks. For example, now in my feed everyone is reposting portraits of certain “pedophiles” who allegedly have just been seen in my city. I know for sure that I saw this picture about a year ago, and about some city in Russia. Is there any way not to manually check each output result, but to immediately see which one came first?
Filter information by date in google gives wrong result. For example, we set the year 2005, but by clicking on the link (page in contact), it turns out that the same garbage was posted a couple of days ago.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try looking at the image's metadata.

Answer 2

Usually when I'm looking for the original source of an image, I sort by size. The largest/highest quality photo is usually the primary source. Worse if there are a lot of places where the photo is of the maximum size

Answer 3

You can download it to Google and specify the time period for which to search in the search tools. Using the "scientific" poke method, you can choose the date of the first appearance.

Answer 4

Is there any way not to manually check each output result, but to immediately see which one came first?

No. Unless you write an output parser that will download each found image and try to find out from it the file modification time (web servers give out quite often) or the time from EXIF ​​metadata.
More specifically, with Google Images, you can supplement the “picture” query with text to narrow the search area.
And, of course, it must be borne in mind that even Google is not able to index all possible images, even if they are freely available.